I know! The last Skulduggery is $23, and I'm hemming and hawing and, and...
Krav maga or series completion (to the point of being published)?
Wafflewafflewaffle....
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Strix - Jan 29, 2012 12:10:14 pm PST #17703 of 28261
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Amy - Jan 29, 2012 4:52:25 pm PST #17704 of 28261
Because books.
People who've borrowed from the Kindle library: When I borrowed Water for Elephants, it said I couldn't borrow another book until Feb. 1 (I think). If I'm not done with the book by then, is it going to disappear?
Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2012 4:53:42 pm PST #17705 of 28261
brillig
I believe it will disappear, but people with more direct experience will have a better answer.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 29, 2012 5:09:18 pm PST #17706 of 28261
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just read that as "like water for elephants".
I haven't had anything disappear yet, but I have always finished reading by months end (I borrowed Hunger Games in December and Catching Fire in January)
Ginger - Jan 29, 2012 5:29:13 pm PST #17707 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Georgia Center for the Book is touting the World Book Night [link] Participants get 20 books to distribute to people who aren't really readers. They decide who participates based on their statement of how they would give away the books. I'm thinking about it, but I'd have to figure out something to say by Wednesday. You have to have read and liked the book, so my choice would have to be between The Stand, The Hunger Games, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Kindred. I like Q is for Quarry, but giving someone a book in the middle of a long series doesn't strike me as something that would encourage reading.
Kat - Jan 30, 2012 3:21:19 am PST #17708 of 28261
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I applied to give Absolute..Indian.
Amy - Jan 30, 2012 4:17:02 am PST #17709 of 28261
Because books.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a recognized group I could apply to donate to. There are a lot of underserved kids in this community, but I'm not sure what channel to give through.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 5:40:34 am PST #17710 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My thought was all the people in waiting rooms at Kaiser and the ER who sit there with nothing to read, waiting. I figure anyone who doesn't have a book there is either a nonreader or desperate for a book. One problem is that giving The Stand to sick people seems wrong.
erikaj - Jan 30, 2012 5:42:04 am PST #17711 of 28261
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. and it is also a billion pages.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2012 5:46:11 am PST #17712 of 28261
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I could give it to people who look like they need doorstops.